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Volume 45 - August 1986

Book Reviews—Japan

Naomi. By Junichirō Tanizaki. Translated by Anthony H. Chambers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. x, 237 pp. Introduction. $15.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Kinship and Ritual in Bengal: Anthropological Essays. By Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1984. x, 224 pp. $26. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study. By Michael Carrithers. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. xiii, 306 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index, and Glossary. Rs. 145.

Western Economists and Eastern Societies: Agents of Change in South Asia, 1950–1970. By George Rosen. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xxii, 270 pp. Notes, Sources for Epigraphs, Index. $30.

Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way. By E. Valentine Daniel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xiv, 320 pp. Bibliography, Index. $29.95.

The Śāmalājī Sculptures and Sixth-Century Art in Western India. By Sara L. Schastok. (Studies in South Asian Culture, vol. 11.) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. xx, 130 pp. Bibliography, Index, References to Illustrations, Plates. N.p.

A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720–1820. By B. N. Goswamy and A. L. Dallapiccola. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi, 95 pp. Notes, Catalogue, Color and Black-and-White Plates. Rs 400; $75. (Available in the U.S. from Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.)

Book Reviews—Japan

Going to War with Japan, 1937–1941. By Jonathan G. Utley. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985 xvi, 238 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $19.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Contemporary Buddhism in Bangladesh. By Sukomal Chaudhuri. Calcutta: Atisha Memorial Publishing Society, 1982. xii, 167 pp. Plates, Appendixes, Select Bibliography, Index. $10.

The Pakistan Army. By Stephen P. Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. ix, 177 pp. Bibliographic note, Index. $27.50.

Fighting with Gandhi: A Step-By-Step Strategy for Resolving Everyday Conflicts. By Mark Juergensmeyer. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984. ix, 182 pp. Bibliographical Note, Notes, Acknowledgments, Index. $12.95.

Where Kings and Gods Meet: The Royal Centre at Vijayanagara, India. By John M. Fritz, George Mitchell, and M. S. Nagaraja Rao. Preface by Burton Stein. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. 158 pp. Bibliography, Maps, Plans, Elevation Drawings. N.p.

The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry. By David Dean Shulman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xvi, 447 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $57.

Book Reviews—Japan

Requiem for Battleship Yamato. By Yoshida Mitsuru. Translated, and with an introduction, by Richard H. Minear. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. xxxvi, 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Industrial Transition in Rural India: Artisans, Traders, and Tribals in South Gujarat. By Hein Streefkerk. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1985. xv, 280 pp. Bibliography. Rs. 60.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. 1: Bālakānda. Introduction and Translation by Robert P. Goldman. Annotation by Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xx, 429 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $50.

Bangladesh: Society, Politics, and Bureaucracy. Edited by Mohammad Mohabbat Khan and John P. Thorp. Dhaka: Center for Administrative Studies, 1984. x, 190 pp. Tk. 125.00; $10. (Distributed by the Riverdale Company, Riverdale, Md.)

India and the Third World: Altruism or Hegemony? By Srikant Dutt. London: Zed Books, 1984. xiii, 184 pp. Bibliography. $26.25 (cloth); $10.25 (paper).

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Book Reviews—Japan

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Book Reviews—South Asia

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Book Reviews—South Asia